Jörg Pingel (born 2 October 1970) is a former
motorcycle speedway rider from Germany. He earned two international caps for the
German national speedway team.
Career
Pingel came to prominence when winning the bronze medal at the 1992
German Individual Speedway Championship.
He started racing in the British leagues during the
1996 Premier League speedway season, when riding for the
Reading Racers
Reading Racers are a British motorcycle speedway team. Formed in 1968, they won four British League titles during their history. The club closed in October 2008 after the lease on Smallmead Stadium was sold and the site was demolished. In 2016 a ...
.
In 1997, he joined
Berwick Bandits
The Berwick Bandits are a British speedway club, based in Berwick-upon-Tweed. They currently compete in the SGB Championship, racing at Shielfield Park, with home matches usually taking place on Saturday evenings. They also run a second team ...
for the
1997 Premier League speedway season and reached the final of the
Fours Championship. His final season in Britain was with Berwick in 2000.
[ In 2005, he won his second bronze medal at the German Individual Championship.][
He represented the ]Germany national speedway team
The Germany national speedway team are motorcycle speedway national team from Germany.
2009 Team
A members of 2009 Teams was approval in March 2009 by Deutscher Motor Sport Bund.
* Seniors:
** Martin Smolinski
** Kevin Wölbert
** Tobias Krone ...
on two occasions.[
]
References
Living people
1970 births
German speedway riders
Berwick Bandits riders
Reading Racers riders
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